Woof woof....that's exactly what I thought when I got fed up with subString indexOf et al. There are other non-asf regexp packages around but since I intended submitting the perforce tasks I selected an asf api, at least it keeps it all in-house. regex is lightweight and I thought that could be limiting having never used it, oro isn't so that's what I went for (and as I said, I have a copy floating about on my laptop - downloading isn't an option over GSM from British trains ;-}
ttfn, Les > -----Original Message----- > From: Jon Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 15 November 2000 00:13 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: regex (was: Re: [Patch] New Perforce tasks) > > > on 11/14/2000 2:13 PM, "Hall, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From: Jon Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >> You have been sleeping my friend. :-) > > > > Nope. Stefan questioned the need for ORO. I understand > > that regexp is a subsetof ORO, but if that's all that > > is needed then that's all that should be used. > > > > jh > > regexp is NOT a subset of ORO. It is an entirely separate code base. > > I got the regexp package from jonathan locke (he is an excellent Java > developer at Sun) after james davidson asked him to release > the source code > after i complained to james that there wasn't decent regex > support in Java > that wasn't GPL. James makes things happen. :-) > > After the regexp package was released, daniel (author of ORO) > decided to > release his ORO package under the BSD license (instead of > GPL...woo hoo!) > and contribute it to the Jakarta project. > > So, one project helped start another project and regexp is > now essentially a > lightweight alternative to ORO and nothing more. > > We should eat our own dog food and use ORO or regexp. My vote > would be for > ORO first since it has much more functionality. > > -jon > > -- > twice of not very much is still a lot more than not very much >
